Each year, towards the end of the supercomputing show, many
of us ponder on the major takeaways from the event.Reflecting on SC12one of the most exciting highlights
was the rollout Intel Xeon
Phi coprocessor, the first product in Xeon Phi family based on Intel’s Many
Integrated Core(MIC) architecture.At
SC12, IBM demonstrated an integrated solution based on Xeon Phi coprocessor,
Platform HPC management software and IBM System x.To showcase the tremendous processing power
from Intel’s new processor architecture, IBM team demonstrated
how certain application could benefit from the Xeon Phi coprocessor by using Intel
Embree, a massively parallel ray tracing application.The application was run on both Xeon Phi
coprocessor and Xeon processor, using IBM
iDataPlex servers.

With Platform
HPC software we were able to demonstrate the consistent performance
advantage Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor had overXeon processor.We observed as
much as a 5x performance increase running the application on Xeon Phi coprocessor
compared to “Sandy Bridge” processor.

The integrated solution based
on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, IBM Platform HPC and IBM System x is designed
for HPC users to easily accelerate their parallel applications. While managing various
types of workloads in a clustered environment, Platform HPC automatically
allocates the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to workloads that are suited for
running on those resources.As a result
it frees up CPU resources so they are available to other types of workloads.
This intelligent scheduling mechanism enables better matching between available
resources and different types of workloads running on a cluster, resulting
faster overall application throughout, high resource utilization and reduced
total cost of infrastructure investment.

We expect the combined
solution of Platform HPC, System x and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor will
deliver compelling benefits to both IT administrators and users to help achieve faster
time-to-results, improved user and administrator productivity and optimal
infrastructure utilization.

The support for Intel Xeon Phi
coprocessor is another latest establishment in the history of partnership
between IBM Platform Computing and Intel. At SC12, IBM Platform Computing was recognized
as the winner of the Pathfinder Award by Intel Cluster Ready program for the
continued effort led by IBM Platform Computing on leading the
development of Intel Cluster Ready Reference Designs for the E5 family of
products.

To learn more about the
technology integration of Platform HPC, IBM System x and Intel Xeon Phi
coprocessor, please download white paper here.

Each year, towards the end of the supercomputing show, many
of us ponder on the major takeaways from the event.Reflecting on SC12one of the most exciting highlights
was the rollout
of the Intel Xeon
Phi coprocessor, the first product in Xeon Phi family based on Intel’s Many
Integrated Core(MIC) architecture.At
SC12, IBM demonstrated an integrated
solution based on Xeon Phi coprocessor, Platform HPC management software and IBM
System x.To showcase the tremendous
processing power from Intel’s new processor architecture, IBM team demonstrated
how certain application could benefit from the Xeon Phi coprocessor by using Intel
Embree, a massively parallel ray tracing application.The application was run on both Xeon Phi
coprocessor and Xeon processor, using IBM
iDataPlex servers.

With Platform
HPC software we were able to demonstrate the consistent performance
advantage Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor had overXeon processor.We observed as much as a 5x performance increase
running the application on Xeon Phi coprocessor compared to “Sandy Bridge”
processor.

The integrated solution based
on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, IBM Platform HPC and IBM System x is designed
for HPC users to easily accelerate their parallel applications. While managing various
types of workloads in a clustered environment, Platform HPC automatically
allocates the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to workloads that are suited for
running on those resources.As a result
it frees up CPU resources so they are available to other types of workloads.
This intelligent scheduling mechanism enables better matching between available
resources and different types of workloads running on a cluster, resulting
faster overall application throughout, high resource utilization and reduced
total cost of infrastructure investment.

We expect the combined
solution of Platform HPC, System x and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor will
deliver compelling benefits to both IT administrators and users to achieve faster
time-to-results, improved user and administrator productivity and optimal
infrastructure utilization.

The support for Intel Xeon Phi
coprocessor is another latest establishment in the long history of partnership
between IBM Platform Computing and Intel. At SC12, IBM Platform Computing was recognized
as the winner of the Pathfinder Award by Intel Cluster Ready program for our
continued effort of leading the
development of Intel Cluster Ready Reference Designs for the E5 family of
products.

To learn more about the
technology integration of Platform HPC, IBM System x and Intel Xeon Phi
coprocessor, please download white paper here.